There are three distinguished in fierceness: Israel among the nations, the dog among animals, and the cock among birds. —Rabbi Simeon, Tractate Bezah 25b, Babylonian Talmud (Quincentenary ed.), Soncino Pr.

Where is it possible to find a group of Jews who are committed to Israel, and whose children are likely to honor that commitment? The answer is, in a synagogue on the Sabbath. —Elliott Abrams, "Can Jews Survive?"

It is a fact that the Jewish religion is above all Jewish nationalism ... One must be a Jew first and a human being second. —Moses Hess, Rome and Jerusalem, as quoted in The Decadence of Judaism in Our Time by Moshe Menuhin.

Why, then, does truth generate hatred ... unless it be that truth is loved in such a way that those who love something else besides her wish that to be the truth which they do love. ... Therefore, they hate the truth for the sake of whatever it is that they love in place of the truth. —Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Bk. X, Ch. XXIII, 34)

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Ann Arbor physician and a friend of this blogger, Dr. Catherine Wilkerson, has a new article out in CounterPunch entitled "Don't Come to Ann Arbor." The article is her eyewitness account of the violent repression of free speech at the University of Michigan last November. Elsewhere on this blog there is a video link and four posts on about those events (see links below). I've also taken the liberty of providing a couple of links related to Dr. Wilkerson's article.